Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...masterpiece. In the deep subjective sea of life, Joachim's poor children can be understood as blowfish. The little blowfish is alone and frightened, and he has worked out a system of puffing up and blowing when confronted with dangerous reality . . . The sad thing is, as you say, they have widely sold this system as a universal mode for coping with reality, so that the "pathological dream world is fairly effective." Gullible men may be impressed, but reality doesn't seem...
...with a mission. A kind of national gadfly, he has stung the U.S. conscience with ominous reminders of the growth of Soviet military power. Last week, in Philadelphia, Freshman Senator Symington charged that the U.S. Government itself had soft-pedaled the Russian threat. Said he: "It is a sad fact that for a long time some of our national leaders-in both parties-have not told us the whole brutal truth about the world in which we live...
...fulcrum of the series, Marshal Matt Dillon sets the mood. He is, says Macdonnell, "a lonely, sad, tragic man . . . a quiet, unhappy, confused marshal; these days we'd send him to an analyst." Like one of his prototypes,* Matt is not all sweetness & light. The girl in the series, Kitty, is "just someone Matt has to visit every once in a while," says Macdonnell. "We never say it, but Kitty is a prostitute, plain and simple...
Smoking My Sad Cigarette (Jo Stafford; Columbia). A deep blue mood with a lot of words, but still a likely bet for a top seller...
...Sad Day. "If we cannot detect a teacher engaged in skillful indoctrination by classroom visits, what about questioning his students from time to time and alerting them on what to observe? Even if we could rely on students to do this, it would be a sad day in the history of American education were we to degrade our students by impressing them into the kind of service made so notorious in Communist police states. Far better to leave Communist teachers to do as they please than to cast their students in the role of informers...